Alert archive / North Carolina / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued this flash flood warning at Sep 18, 2000, 3:19 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 2000, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Onslow County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 78 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMHX 181920 FFWMHX NCC133-182015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT-MOREHEAD CITY NC 319 PM EDT MON SEP 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN NEWPORT HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ONSLOW COUNTY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTH CENTRAL PENDER COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND NEW RIVER AIR STATION. JACKSONVILLE. HOLLY RIDGE. CATHERINE LAKE. RICHLANDS. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...IS SET TO CROSS OVER ONSLOW COUNTY AGAIN. SOME AREAS IN ONSLOW COUNTY HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED 3 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE AS THE NEW STORMS PASS OVER THE REGION. THIS WILL AGGRAVATE EXISTING FLOODING...AND PRODUCE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND HIGHWAYS. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NNNN LAT...LON 3445 7794 3433 7778 3469 7727 3488 7750 08/13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Newport/Morehead City, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 1:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 81 min |
| Sep 18, 4:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Onslow | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MHX | Carteret, Craven | 33 min |
| Sep 18, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MHX | Craven | 3 hr |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.